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Men vs women comparison in soccer
A while ago I guy I knew who played soccer for most of his life and is very passionate, analytic minded and objective when discussing about it told me that the difference between man and woman is soccer is so huge that, in his opinion, "most men who just played a bit among friends for fun are better than professional female soccer players".
I point out that he is not the kind of person who can't accept the tought of losing in a fight to a woman, for example he has no problem admitting that a woman who is good at boxing or MMA would easily wreck a man with no training like he is. Since I don't know much about soccer I was wondering if it's true or if he was underestimating women, and if it's true why the difference is so huge compared to other athletic activities. I mean, I get that very few women are interested in soccer while an huge number of men are, so combine that with men's biological advantage and at professional leves the difference in performance is obviously going to be astronomical, but are really regular men who are not even good enough to play in an actual team and just play once in a while with friends better than female professionals? Do you agree with him? If yes, can you explain me why the gap is so particularly wide? |
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I know @[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] provided a lot of links of girls/womens sides beating boys/mens last year.
[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] You can probably find many more examples by searching football/soccer in this sub-forum. So your friend is factually wrong. I've also heard ignorant guys - arm chair experts - say similar things. You can go from watching mens Football - the big teams in Europe - to women's and the quality is visibly inferior. The women are playing at a much slower pace, less physical, athletic and technical. Because of this, people think professional women are a lot worse than they actually are. Check out this vid. [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] - Mixed relay where a female is visibly slower and blown away on the last leg. Ignorant guys might come away with the notion that she couldn't even beat boys in the park, such was her inferiority to elite males. Another psychological reason that I recently touched on in the thread High School Wrestling Profiles is that because he is so passionate about Football and has invested so much time and energy into it, he sees it as his sport, where he is the authority - his accumulated knowledge is respected and revered. When you see an activity as a manly, macho domain, it can be very unsettling for a female to come along and "burst your bubble" so to speak. When I was at school back in the 90s, early 2000s, there was no girls Football here in the UK. Boys played Football, Rugby and Cricket. Girls played Netball, Field Hockey, Rounders and had Gymnastics too. Boys had their lane, girls had theirs. Everyone respected it and that was that. A girl playing Football? Put away such silly fantasies. It's not for girls and even if we let them play, they wouldn't be any good at it. It was a game invented by men for men, tailored to men's strengths. Same as the Boy Scouts. Camping out, making fires, tying knots, special handshakes. It's a male sanctuary. We don't want girls interfering. When you're actually confronted with the scenario of having dedicated so much of your life's time, passion and energy to a pursuit. Had successes, received compliments, earned respect amongst your male peers, etc. ...And now a young, fresh faced, feminine, girly girl ties up her bouncy hair and performs said activity better than you ever could - or ever will - is a crushing experience. That's the modern world for you. Being born male doesn't carry the birthrights it did for previous generations. It's a serious topic. Male suicide rates are worrisome. Young men are struggling to find their place in this world. It's not the world it was for previous generations. Boomers can sprout outdated, sexist opinions all they want, but they are long retired. They're not the ones having to go out there and lose out, get humiliated by the supposed "fairer sex". Boomers might ridicule such "wimps" because it never happened to them but fail to see the world was set up so that it wouldn't. Girls were discouraged from being strong and "showing up boys" -- now they're encouraged and celebrated for doing so. The beaten males are paraded around like a "trophy kills" on the superior girl's social media for all to see. Many of us wish we could just go back to the way things were because in the cold light of day ignorance really can be bliss. |
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So in your opinion professional females are comparable to what level of men? For example National level women are comparable to Fourth division/Serie D men? Or they are lower than that? |
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[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] Of course you need to give credit to "deepkick" too who did his share of work before I was around. I also just found this recent match where a cocky u15 boys' team challenged Feyenoord reserve women who were mostly barely few years older than them and got thoroughly spanked 9:1 by the girls. [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] The girls who scored were 16, 17, 18, 17, 17 and 16 years old at the time. Here are the girls who play for this reserve team so you can check their age: [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] I'm pretty sure that all those "males who played a bit with friends" would receive a similar hammering by these reserve women, yet alone elite pros. Last edited by Amazonia; 16-May-21 at 17:57. |
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It's almost as people don't want the notion and belief that women could beat men at a sport so popular and widely practiced among males to spread. |
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I guess these u15 boys got encouraged by those few matches of US and Australian women's team losing to boys their age that as you say keep getting mentioned like propaganda, and got a humiliating lesson served for their ignorance. I bet they regret calling out the Feyenoord girls haha It's really hilarious that they keep bringing up these matches of US and Australian women making it look as if any U15 boys can win, while there are many cases of u15 girls competing in u15 boys' leagues and winning. For example this Dutch girls' u15 team kept trashing the boys' u15 league teams: [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] If you check their youtube channel there are many more of such matches and they win 90% of them. Against boys their age! I think for many average untrained men it's actually easier to accept losing to women in BJJ/wrestling than in football, because very few of them trained grappling while football is widely practiced by the majority of men in Europe and beyond, so they don't really have excuses of now knowing the sport. |
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So these women's national teams like USA and Australia losing to club youth teams is not as bad as people think as these teams don't train together a lot and need friendly games to get prepared, while the boys were carefully selected and used to play as a team and it was the biggest game of their lives to that point. It would only be fair to compare best female clubs to male clubs, but this is also a bit unfair because top European men's leagues are filled with money and talent from all over the world, while in women's leagues it's still mostly local women. For example look at the Serie A winners Inter and how many Italians they have in their team. Very little. I think they have only 1 Italian player in starting 11, the rest is elite foreign "mercenaries" that were carefully selected from all over the world. Meanwhile top women's teams are still mostly women from their country, with only a handful of foreign women. For example Bayern München's women's team (German female champions) is mostly local German women, Bayern's men's team is a bunch of foreigners and a few German players, Barcelona women's team that will play in women's Champions League final is almost entirely local Spanish women, while men's Barcelona team relies on foreign talent like Messi, ter Stegen and de Jong that they scout from other countries. Men's teams just have million more options to choose from, because there are more men playing football. If you look at Italian football leagues like Serie A, it's not really an "Italian" league anymore, it's a global league that happens to be played in Italy and the top clubs mostly have players who are not Italian. So these Serie D players would in normal circumstances play much higher in Italian football, but because the clubs in top divisions bought so much foreign talented players they're now playing lower. But with women the talent pool is not nearly as big and they're mostly just using local players. For every woman there's probably like 100 men playing in the world. The only fair comparisons are on lower level where you have men and women from a similar talent pool competing against each other. There was an interesting game I found where a Slovenian 2nd division U19 boys lost 3:2 to the women's first division team of their same town. [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] As you can see from the photos of the match, the men look much bigger and the women are not much older than them, in some cases even younger: [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] The girl who scored the second goal was only 20 and the girl who scored the winning goal was 17. The senior team of the second division male club could probably beat the women's team, but likely not by much. It's definitely telling that the senior men's team never wanted to avenge their U19 team lol. Last edited by Amazonia; 16-May-21 at 19:56. |
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The best women's team in the world is FC Barcelona that just won the Champions League. Do you want to see how they do against MEN? They played two friendly games against male U19 teams last year and trashed the men 5:0 and 6:0. [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] [Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register] As you can see, these are grown men they're playing against and the women beat them 6:0 easily, toying with them. The funny thing is men go into these matches thinking they would easily win (often talking a lot of trash too) because of the propaganda of U15 teams supposedly being better than "the best" women teams (which are not actually even near the best teams in terms of quality). So these u19 men were definitely thinking this was a winnable game... then they end up getting outclassed and demolished LOL. Sorry boys but you got humbled by girls big time! haha Men are just setting themselves up for embarrassment if they underestimate women football like this and end up on the receiving end of 6:0 trashings. Last edited by Amazonia; 17-May-21 at 18:46. |
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Re: Men vs women comparison in soccer
In response to the OP, I actually think the performance gap between boys’ and girls’ soccer is smaller than most other sports. The biggest differences in men and womens athletic genetics are:
Height (Average US male is 5 inches taller than female) Upperbody Strength (Men are about 2x stronger iirc, the gap in leg strength is not quite as large) Explosiveness (Max speed, Vertical Jump, Punching force etc.) These aspects aren’t really as important in soccer as they are in stuff like basketball, football, track and field, etc. Soccer has a heavier focus on endurance and fundamental skills where the gap between boys and girls isn’t as big. Lots of girls will have better endurance over an 80-90 minute match. And lots of girls will have better coordination, dribbling, passing, and teamwork than boys, especially if they play for top level clubs while the boys play more casually. It’s a lot different in sports like basketball however. Once boys start to hit puberty, they get huge advantage. In a sport with a 10 foot rim, having a 5 inch height advantage, longer armspan, and the ability to run faster and jump higher is a massive advantage. Basketball also has a faster pace and much smaller playing area than soccer, making the athletic advantage more noticeable. Once you get to the varsity high school level, it almost feels like the boys are playing a completely different sport. |
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